In 2015 artist and filmmaker George Gittoes was awarded the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize for his humanitarian and peacemaking efforts. It was no surprise, given he has spent the last 45-years making work in, and about, zones of conflict.
Gittoes views his pursuit of war as an expression of his conviction about the value of art as a weapon for social change.
His passport reads like a checklist of travel warning alerts: the killing fields of Cambodia to Rwanda, war zones of the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, Nicaragua, Bosnia and Baghdad, and most recently Chicago’s black neighbourhoods.
